In this video you join Pro Tools Expert Technical Editor James Ivey for day 3 of his sessions on the Audient ASP8024 Heritage Edition console. In the final part of this series James and Audient's Bryn Wildish look at mixing the track "Sticks & Stones", which they have recorded over the previous days.

I have talked about Soundly a couple of times on the podcast as my Find Of The Week even though it has been in public beta for a long time. It is already my go-to sound effects librarian software and now it has been officially launched.

Have you ever wondered how in the days of tape, long before DAW’s, audio engineers could do seemingly simple things like reliably locate specific points in a song? Or even automate an entire mix? How about spotting a sound effect in post-production and working on a film set to get accurate synchronisation of location audio?

Last month we ran a competition where we offered one person the chance to win a copy of every single sound effects library in the SoundBits library and two runners up prizes of a 4 Pack collection of their choice from the SoundBits catalogue. We can announce that winner is Holger Jung and the runners up were Claudio Demel and Chris McIntosh.

We are preparing two special podcasts as we move from one year to the next. The first show will be our review of 2016 and the second show will be looking forward to what 2017 might bring, and we would like to hear your thoughts to include on these special podcasts.

In this free tutorial from pureMix, Ben Lindell demonstrates how he sets up his mix bus processing on a nearly finished mix. Using Universal Audio UAD plug-ins, Ben takes this dance-pop track from sounding good to great!

Avid are offering users who have either allowed their upgrade plan to lapse or have never upgraded to Pro Tools 12 the chance to buy what Avid call a reinstatement plan and if you buy and activate a plan before 31st December 2016 you will get an extra year of upgrades free.

Avid have announced today that they have heard the comments from users about the limits in the paid plans for their cloud collaboration plans and they have now dropped the project limits on the two paid for plans.

Waves have released a new plugin today, the Primary Source Expander aimed mainly at the live sound sector. PSE is designed to let you reduce stage bleed and sensitivity to feedback when a mic is idle by automatically lowering mic levels between musical phrases making it very useful for for live sound and for mixing live recordings.

As we announced earlier this week Tim Carroll who was Avid’s vice president, audio products has been appointed Chief Executive at Focusrite. Avid have moved quickly to announce that Tim Claman, who is vice president, platform and solutions for Avid will now responsible for Avid’s audio solutions.